From Special Tribunal to Special Division Sample Clauses

From Special Tribunal to Special Division. As chapter four explained, a key recommendation of the Commission of Inquiry on Post-Election Violence was that a special tribunal be established to “seek accountability against persons bearing the greatest responsibility for crimes, particularly crimes against humanity.”544 Much like the A&R Agreements in Uganda, then, complementarity’s coercive dimension was the dominant logic behind the CIPEV’s recommendation. If a Special Tribunal was not established within a specified time frame, and if the government proved unwilling or unable to investigate and prosecute, the ICC might intervene. As noted, however, the rejection of the STK owed largely to the “unholy alliance” amongst those MPs who supported a domestic accountability process but had substantive objections to the bill put forward by then Minister for Justice Xxxxx, and those who “considered the ICC card a bluff,” one that would take “too long to 540 See Letter from Xxxx X.X. Xxxxxxxx, Solicitor General, Reply to Request for Information from the Republic of Uganda on the Status of Execution of the Warrants of Arrest, ICC-02/04-01/05-285-Anx2, Government of Uganda, 27 March 2008; aee also Uganda Admissibility Decision.The letter further clarified that the government referred the situation to the ICC “because the leadership of the Lord's Resistance Army was beyond the borders of Uganda and the international community was not being helpful,” not because of “the competence of its courts to handle cases connected with the situation.”